Download the prize-winning sacred Creation Oratorio by composer Sabrina Pena Young at the Petrucci Library. The Petrucci Library provides classical music enthusiasts with free online sheet music like string quartets, choral music, piano music, music for violin, and more. Most of the music is public domain or has Creative Commons licensing for performance. Enjoy an exhaustive list of classical sheet music at your fingertips at the Petrucci Library Classical music online.Perform the unique Creation Oratorio, a contemporary classical oratorio in three languages - Spanish, English, and Swahili.

A complex multilingual intertwining of Afro-Cuban music and traditional choral music, the intermedia oratorio Creation celebrates diversity and the beauty of procreation. A celebration of culture, life, humanity, and the female body, Creation further marks itself as a musical milestone, commissioned specifically for a 60 member woman's chorus and composed by a young female composer of Cuban-Dominican heritage.

Premier performance by the Millikin State University Women's Chorale directed by Michael Engelhardt and accompanied by the Millikin University Percussion Ensemble, directed by Brian Justison. Creation won the "New Genre Prize" for the IAWM Search for New Music in 2011.

Performance Notes: The click tracks are mono click in the left ear and mono tape in the right ear. For performances, the click goes to the conductor headphones and the mono tape part goes to the house speakers.

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